Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER
woman and child $2G4. No starvation

woman and child $2G4. No starvation
in that.
The Canadian Pacific railroad claims
to be willing to negotiate with the
transcontinental lines in reference to
maintaining tariff rates, but will not
be a party to any agreement with the
Northern Pacific. This is a polite
way of declining to have anything to
do with the American roads.
A proposition has been made to Port
Townsend by John Campbell, James
Campbell and Capt. Thos. Grant to
build marine ways on the water
front to cost not less than $50 900, and
to be of sufficient capacity to take a
vessel of 1900 tons, provided the citi-
zens viii! subscribe bonus of 5000.
Articles of incorporation of the
Sunnyside Irrigation Canal and Land
company of North Yakima, have been
filed with Territorial Secretary Owings
at Olympia. The capital stock of the
company is $5OO,OO0. The purpose Of
this company is to build canal for
navigation as we'll as irrigating pur-
poses.
A cannery man informed the Sc
attic Post-Intelligencer that the salmon
run on Puget Sound had been very
light this season, four out of the five
canneries having packed only about
1890 cases. The cannery proprietors
at Mukilteo discovered that dog sal
mon were absolutely unfit for food,
and abandoned the project. of packing
them.
Tacoma World: Kaponsin is the
name of "A beautiful lake six miles
south of Orting. The name means in
the Indian language, sunken water"
1t is several miles long and in places
a mile wide. In places the tops of
tall trees are sticking out of the water,
which is very clear. 1t is full of fish,
salmon aud trout, while deer and
bear linger along the shore.
The united mill owners on Puget
Sound, it is said have formed corpo-
ration with $l5O,O0O capital for the
purpose of building a large sawmill at
Gray's Harbor. The headquarters of
the new company are at Ssn Francisco
and every large sawmill on the Sound
is represented in the board of directors.
San Francisco controls almost the en-
tire numbering interests of Washing
ton territory.
The pupils of the Whatcom public
schools are endeavoring to procure a
library of reference books, and in aid
OF their project the school directors
give them Sc per month for doing the
janitor work, and the pupils have
purchased set of Chambers encyclo-
pedia, Macauley's history Of England,
five volumes, Bancroft's history Of the
United States, six volumes, and Wal
ter's tour in the east, six volumes.
Yakima Signal: The government
has decided to go out of the cattle
raising business on the Yakima reser-
vation, and to this end is arranging to
sell about 1,5OO head to the highest
bidder, on the 25th inst, and distrib-
ute as many more among the Indians.
This distribution is now in progress OH
the Topenish, and the allowance is a
cow and calf to the head of family
for each child attending the govern
ment school, and heifer for the head
, of a family having no children at
: school.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with Secretary Owings last week Of the
University Club, of Spokane Fails. 1t
: is for literary purposes and mutual
, improvement. The capital stock is
5000. Also OF the Tacoma Brick
Company; capital stock $1,000. The
, incorporators and trustees are John
w. Berry, H. J. Hyman and Mn. P
, Sundberg. Also of the Spokants fire
Insurance Company, with .c1pita'
stock of 100000. The trustees art
N. d. Walling, d. L. Mckinney and
, Samuel Seely.
: The Scientific american, Of Nov. 5tl
has complete skeleton of one of tho
mastodons which were found OF
Hangman creek, Spokane county
near Latah, in the spring of 1878
This skeleton is now erected in th'
Academy OF Sciences at Chicago; th'
:, height as it stands mounted is 13 feet
Barnum's elephant Jumbo, was L
- feet inches. The bones were pur
chased by DIR. Andrews and presented
e to the Chicago Academy. Washing
s ton takes the premium on ancien
o mastodons as well as in modern whea
It and vegetables.
e The dog salmon is a vertible kim
= among fish. In size they range from
y about five to fifteen pounds. The
are very active, fiercely attacking othe
e fish, and with their ravenous, doglik
< teeth are able to inflict injury on an,
n thing they attack. They swarm abou
], the mouths of small creeks in the fa
E. of the year waiting for a raise. The
le then swarm up, fighting each othe
for the possession of favorite rifle
It upon which to deposit their spawl
ID They never leave the creeks, but ia
le an easy prey to all kinds of varmint
j. Commerce.
1t Captain Feltus, who removed hi